It has been an exciting year for arts and culture on the Sunshine Coast and now there is an opportunity to help to promote, advance and raise funds for arts and cultural experiences by becoming a member of the Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation board.

Sunshine Coast Council has decided to divide the Brisbane Road Car Park site at Mooloolaba into two parcels and call for tenders to design and construct a multi-deck 700 bay car park on the northern parcel of land facing Smith Street.

Sunshine Coast Council has received a 10th successive commendable report from the Queensland Audit Office (QAO).

Global accelerator program SunRamp Australasia has its sights set on Maroochydore and will launch an exciting initiative early next year to attract the next generation of innovators to the Sunshine Coast.

The Sunshine Coast has been recognised as the nation’s leader in smart cities at the inaugural Australian Smart Cities Awards in Sydney.

The Sunshine Coast’s best creative masterminds have taken out three major prizes in the State Awards for the nationwide GovHack competition. On topics as diverse as “smart” litter to leveraging ocean currents to produce power, 17 Sunshine Coast teams made use of new Open Data from a range Queensland and Local Government agencies to create real solutions to real problems impacting the public.

The accolades continue to roll in for the Palmwoods Town Square Project, which claimed two more prestigious prizes at the 2018 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects National Awards (AILA) ceremony.

Sunshine Coast publishing software company Typefi has been recognised as an outstanding export success story by securing the 2018 Premier of Queensland’s Export Award for Small Business.

The Curated Plate, a new four-day destination food festival, will make its debut on the Sunshine Coast on August 8-11, 2019. In a celebration of the relationship between the chef and producer, the festival will bring together the region’s finest produce with the best chefs in the Australian and international dining scene.

The JobShow will have more than 500 jobs available from businesses and employment providers ready to make connections with Sunshine Coast job seekers when it opens its doors tomorrow (October 16).